Ratigan and Cenk.. this is for you!

[Peacetrain]

:rofl:


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of lat-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."

[ljm2002]

1. What a smashing idea!

Oil rig-like platforms with no building codes, hey, what could possibly go wrong???

You just can't make this stuff up...

[Peacetrain]

2. No kidding..

Trickle down has its roots in libertarianism .. I am ALL for them living on un-inspected oil rigs.. Karma

[DURHAM D]

3. A new version of Waterworld? nt

[BNJMN]

4. Sounds awesome, except for that one part.

"Micronation, sometimes also referred to as model countries- are entities that claim to be independent nations or states but which are not recognized by world governments or major international organizations. These nations often exist only on paper, on the Internet, or in the minds of their creators.

Micronations differ from secession and self-determination movements in that they are largely viewed as being eccentric and ephemeral in nature, and are often created and maintained by a single person or family group. This criterion excludes entities such as the Republic of China (Taiwan) that have diplomatic relations with other recognized nation-states of the world without being formally recognized themselves by many nation-states or accepted by major international bodies. Some micro-nationalists call their countries Nomadic Countries, especially ones that have no land and are based on the Internet."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation



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Who doesn't want to get away from all this shit?
But yeah, someone's been playing too much of Sid Meier's Civilization.

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone

[EC]

5. There are already many countries without government

or regulations, like Somalia, why don't they just try their little experiment there?